Teacher Resource Links

Alabama GRIT --- Graduate Ready. Impact Tomorrow., is a team of
Alabama parents, educators, business leaders, military personnel,
and other civic leaders who work together to ensure all of
Alabama's children have an opportunity to graduate from any of
Alabama's schools prepared for REAL LIFE- whether they are
beginning college or a career.

This website is PERFECT for non-fiction reading passages that
are adapted for different reading levels. The lowest level is
perfect for newcomers that do not have any English vocab. The
articles are in categories (History, sports, Nature...)making it
easy to find something related to a content area. There are
pictures and even a built in word-to-word translator. Adapting text
to a reading level or language proficiency level is an effective
way to teach grade level content to all students and this website
makes it easy to do so.

The 2013 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning foster the
qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and
collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user
friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and
discover.

The Landmark Websites are honored due to their exemplary
histories of authoritative, dynamic content and curricular
relevance. They are free, web-based sites that are user friendly
and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover and
provide a foundation to support 21st-century teaching and
learning.

The apps recognized as Best Apps for Teaching & Learning
are of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning as
embodied in the AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century
Learner. The apps foster the qualities of innovation,
creativity, active participation, and collaboration and are user
friendly to encourage a community of learners to explore and
discover.

This year instead of doing just my top favorite sites, I'm
going to include apps due to the shift in education to mobile
learning and the "flipped classroom." While last year's post
included lots of educational networks, this year's has lots of
curation sites, as well as writing/grammar sites.

Mobile devices are transforming the way teachers are teaching
and students are learning. The term "Flipped Classrooms" is
becoming more mainstream in which teachers are using online methods
to teach and students are using mobile devices to learn. This
alphabetical list covers a wide variety of areas of interest to
teachers and students alike.

Looking for fun games that require critical thinking skills?
Cool apps that exercise creative muscles? Engaging websites that
encourage vocabulary building through collaboration? We've sifted
through the vast sea of products out there and have rated and
reviewed each one based on its learning potential.

KidSites.com is among the oldest sites for kids on the
Internet. Since 1997, KidSites' primary mission has remained the
same; to find and provide reviews for the best sites for kids on
the Internet, and bring them together in one convenient location
for our visitors.

The following is our list for the 55 best apps for learning we
can find. Some are formal learning-math drilling and phonics, for
example-while others are RSS readers, social media platforms, and
the like. These are purposely not all purely academic, "training"
apps that focus on individual skills, but rather the an array of
apps students could use daily to improve their ability to think,
connect, and use information.

Project-Based Learning is a method of giving learners access to
curriculum in authentic ways that promote collaboration, design,
imagination, and innovation while also allowing for more natural
integration of digital and social media. Below we've offered 23
ways that the iPad can be used in your classroom. While given
strategies may or may not fit exactly into your curriculum or grade
level, consider them instead as a kind of board of ideas to inspire
your own thinking.

Teaching a new language to non-native speakers may be one of
the most challenging educational jobs out there, so ELL teachers
can use all of the help they can get! Thankfully, many excellent
resources for ELL and ESL exist online, from full-service websites
to reference tools and communities, all designed to make the task
of educating ELL students just a little bit easier and more
effective.